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St. Louis Cardinals’ Hacking Investigations Finally Going Somewhere

By Josh Sippie

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It all came as a bit of a shock when we found out a couple of weeks ago that the St. Louis Cardinals were being investigated by the FBI for allegedly hacking into the Houston Astros ‘Ground Control,’ where Astros’ GM and former St. Louis Cardinals scouting director Jeff Luhnow stores every bit of important information, from scouting reports to trade talks.

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With the FBI on the case, it was only a matter of time before some skulls were cracked and answers were unveiled and those answers are finally starting to come in, though they are only scratching the surface.

Initially, the thought was that no high-ranking members of the Cardinals organization was involved in the detestable act, but it has now been revealed that St. Louis Cardinals scouting directer Chris Correa has admitted to hacking into ‘Ground Control’. However, Correa maintains that it was on the grounds that he was merely making sure that Luhnow had not stolen any information from the Cardinals upon his departure.

“The relevant inquiry should be what information did former St. Louis Cardinals employees steal from the St. Louis Cardinals organization prior to joining the Houston Astros,” Correa’s lawyer said in a statement reported by the St. Louis Post Dispatch.

Why exactly Luhnow would not be able to use what he had learned while with the Cardinals in his new endeavors with the Astros is beyond me, but if Correa is really hoping for the investigation to flip around, he is a bit, how to say it nicely, overzealous.

Apparently the investigation is complete, but answers are still waiting to be unleashed in full. Correa is the only employee that has been publicly tied to the crimes, but you have to wonder how many of his underlings were doing the dirty work as well. The house that launched the hacking ring from Jupiter Florida was housing more than just Chris Correa so it is hard to imagine that he was in this alone.

While the Cardinals have done the right thing in firing Correa, there are still many answers to be had and more names to be revealed. If someone as high as the scouting director was involved in the hacking, then clearly this crime may be even more egregious than we originally suspected. According to CNN, a federal charge has been recommended by the investigators so that the full extent of the crimes can be uncovered.

From an Astros standpoint, a federal charge should be the only option. They need to figure out who was behind this and who knew about it and did not act. This is the first time such a crime has happened within the sport of baseball to this degree and it needs to be properly dealt with to prevent it from happening again.

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